How Dewsbury and Mirfield are celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

COMMUNITIES in Dewsbury and Mirfield can look forward to a weekend of fun and festivities as the towns celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

SATURDAY JUNE 2

Crown making and jubilee-themed face painting. Dewsbury Market, free.

Jubilee street party. Food and drinks, performances by majorettes, and old-fashioned sports challenges for children, including egg and spoon races and three-legged races. Organised by Dewsbury Retail Forum with support from local businesses and Dewsbury Sports Centre. Market Place and Foundry Street, Dewsbury, 10am-2pm.

Schoolcroft Tenants and Resident’s Association party with Queen-themed fancy dress competition, food and drink and a ventriloquist. The TRA flat, School Avenue, Dewsbury Moor, noon-3pm.

Jubilee party with welly wanging, face-painting, ice cream, Coronation teas served by waitresses in 1950s dress, bouncy castle, a display by the Air and Sea Cadets, Batley Music Centre Band, donkey rides, the screening of the Jubilee and children’s entertainers. Dewsbury Minster, Rishworth Road, 11.30am-5pm.

Mirfield Festival of Dance. Morris dancing troupes assemble at Mirfield Showground, 10.30am, then dance to St Paul’s Church, 11am. Performances throughout the day at Mirfield Library in Huddersfield Road, St Paul’s Church in Huddersfield Road, The Airedale Heifer in Stocks Bank Road The Navigation Tavern in Station Road, The Old Colonial in Dunbottle Lane, The Pear Tree Inn in Huddersfield Road, The Ship Inn in Shepley Bridge and Upper Hopton Community Centre in Jackroyd Lane. Final dance-off at St Paul’s Church, 4pm.

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